Re: Dietary Guildlines

I'm attempting to find heart healthy and diabetic friendly guildlines
in the form of recommended daily nutritional values (e.g. fat,
saturated far, fibre etc.). The guildlines must be from an
authoratative source.

"...fat is a very concentrated energy source, providing twice as many
calories per gram as carbohydrates and protein."

I have trouble understanding the significance of that. Let's invert it:
*...fat is very light, providing half as many grams per calorie as
carbohydrates and protein.* Nope, I still don't get it. Are grams good for
you? Do we need really heavy foods? Does the weight of food we consume
really matter that much?

"Recommendation: Limit fat to 20 percent to 35 percent of your daily
calories." Ah...that way you get more grams of food each day. But...is there
a study that shows that eating mostly light foods (low grams per calorie) is
healthy?

Good stuff. ;-)

It's even stoopider than that; what I didn't bother taking issue with
before is the "at least 130 grams of carbs per day" recommendation.
This is based upon absolute misunderstanding of human biochemistry.

They are going with the extreme high figure for brain glucose
requirements daily (100-130 grams, variably). Then they're saying you
need *at least* 130 grams of dietary carbohydate to meet it. This
despite the fact that 58% of dietary protein converts to glucose; there
is no essential carbohydrate in human nutrition.

Further, the brain will preferentially run on ketones when they're
available, bringing down the glucose requirement to 40-60 grams per day
within a few weeks. Brains run *better* on ketones, hence their use in
therapeutics, like epilepsy.

Re: Dietary Guildlines... it confuses carbohydrates as synonymous ..."Saturated fat is the main dietary culprit in raising your blood cholesterol ...calories per gram as carbohydrates and protein." ... Do we need really heavy foods?...(sci.med.nutrition)

Re: LA Times article on carbs...carbohydrates is the key to reversing obesity, heart disease, Type 2 ... The diet they put the 40 people on was broken into two groups. ... According to them one ate low-carb, high fat and the other low-fat, ... statement about those foods being bad for all T2's is inaccurate. ...(alt.support.diabetes)

Re: Regulation of Fatty Acid Metabolism... >An excellent food source does not make you fat and sick, carbs do. ... >> many other foods including carb containing ones. ... It is empty calories with more than twice the energy content of most ...(sci.med.nutrition)